"The Last Man" by Roy Zimmerman

words and music by Roy Zimmerman

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Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• satire
• song
• war
• Afghanistan
• Vietnam
• Iraq
• Obama
• surge
• withdraw
• troops
• Kerry
• Taliban
• al
• Qaeda

[T3aJay]

I might be missing the point of this song.. I'm a Sergeant in the Army and have had friends die in Afghanistan. A very good friend of mine is getting ready to deploy there with the Ranger Battalion out of Fort Lewis... I wish him the best of luck on his tour in hopes that he can return to his family.

I don't like this song.. Death overseas means children without there mother or father. Parents having to watch as there own kids get put into the ground.

This song upset me deeply.. My opinion

[RoyZimmerman]

T3aJay --

I hope you will see that I'm singing the song from the point of view of that "last man" as a way to say that no man or woman should be sent on such a nebulous mission or have to make that sacrifice for such ill-defined goals. My sincere best to you and the entire Ranger Batallion out of Fort Lewis. Roy

[ArianneHermida]

(Insert grammatically poor comment that has nothing to do with the song and serves as another projectile in the 'comment food fight' that occurs under most of Zimmerman's videos)

[wendytunison]

Roy's songs always make me laugh; this one always makes me cry.

[Q2SEEDSMAN]

Thanks Roy, an excellent piece. Subscribed !

[Venaloid]

"We're using money we don't have, to kill people we don't know, for reasons we don't understand."

[paulncost]

@MrGBrooks9

IT'S NOT OUR PROBLEM!!! When are we going to learn this? That's the point of this song. We never should have been in Iraq, and Afghanistan isn't called "the graveyard of empires" for nothing. Our people aren't "dying for our freedom" in this hideous war - they're dying because Dubya wanted to prove to daddy that he was a big man and could "get Saddam" He and Cheney and Rumsfeld should be brought up on charges of crimes against the American people - the bastards!

[grauekatze]

getting a bit of a zevon vibe, for some reason.

[IanDavidOnDU]

@adsamail Those songs are out there.

I'd post links, but YouTube deletes them as spam.

Try googling the phrase, "anti-war songs Afghanistan civilians"

[kevfal]

@ArianneHermida So What?

[cincybones]

@adsamail, You're right, this song wasn't about the civilian casualties of any war, but about the deaths of American soldiers. A song can't be about everything, you know, and a songwriter doesn't always pick his topics, sometimes the topics pick him or her. I hope you feel inspired to write the song about the Afghani people, the 100,000 dead Iraqis, and whatever else your muse bring you to write about - and if it's good enough, you might be able to parlay it into a Hollywood movie.

[wotmot223]

@MagicofAramis wow, you allready did EXACTLY that you self-righteous prick. There was no critisism of our soldiers, it was of those who send them to places that have nothing to do with defending the US, but everything to do with some vauge ideology, or money in the pockets of the rich.

[wotmot223]

@T3aJay I was in Beirut when the marines died. I was there attached (army) and I think you did miss the point of this song. Almost all of us who have served, or are serving "serve". We put our lives on the line, the point of the song is that our leaders far to often choose to use us for something that has nothing to do with defending the lives of our fellow citizens. My heart and prayers go out to you and those you know, but not to those who are sending you there.